Donna A. Favors
“Why give in to rudeness, when you can fight back with kindness.”
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Dave Barry
“A person who is nice to you, but rude to the waiter, is not a nice person”
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Confucius
“Straightforwardness, without the rules of propriety, becomes rudeness”
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Oscar Wilde
“A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude”
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Alexander Chase
“A soft refusal is not always taken, but a rude one is immediately believed”
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Lemony Snicket
"It is terribly rude to tell people that their troubles are boring."
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Bryant H. McGill
“A polite enemy is just as difficult to discredit, as a rude friend is to protect.”
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John Locke
“There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.”
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Author Unknown
“Treat everyone with politeness, even those who are rude to you - not because they are nice, but because you are.”
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Marvin J. Ashton
“…Many of us are perpetual reactors. We let other people determine our actions and attitudes. We let other people determine whether we will be rude or gracious, depressed or elated, critical or loyal, passive or dedicated.”
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Margaret Cavendish
“A rude nature is worse than a brute nature by so much more as man is better than a beast: and those that are of civil natures and genteel dispositions are as much nearer to celestial creatures as those that are rude and cruel are to devils.”
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Spencer W. Kimball
“It frequently happens that offenses are committed when the offender is not aware of it. Something he has said or done is misconstrued or misunderstood. The offended one treasures in his heart the offense, adding to it such other things as might give fuel to the fire and justify his conclusions.
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Arthur Schopenhauer
“It is a wise thing to be polite; consequently, it is a stupid thing to be rude. To make enemies by unnecessary and willful incivility, is just as insane a proceeding as to set your house on fire. For politeness is like a counter--an avowedly false coin, with which it is foolish to be stingy."
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Sir Richard Steele
“Nothing is more silly than the pleasure some people take in "speaking their minds." A man of this make will say a rude thing for the mere pleasure of saying it, when an opposite behavior, full as innocent, might have preserved his friend, or made his fortune.”
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Ed Hayes
"Our lives are fed by kind words of gracious behavior. We are nourished by expressions like `excuse me,' and other such simple courtesies. . . . Rudeness, the absence of the sacrament of consideration is but another mark that our time-is-money society is lacking in spirituality, if not also in its enjoyment of life." Did you hear that phrase? "the sacrament of consideration."
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Society is infected with rude, cynical, restless, and frivolous persons who prey upon the rest, and whom no public opinion concentrated into good manners, forms accepted by the sense of all, can reach; the contradictors and railers at public and private tables, who are like terriers, who conceive it the duty of a dog of honor to growl at any passer-by, and do the honors of the house by barking him out of sight.”
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Thomas S. Monson
“I read with keen interest the words of a bumper sticker readily visible on the highly polished chrome bumper of a car which was weaving in and out of the traffic stream. The words were these: “Honk if you love Jesus.” No one honked. Perhaps each was disturbed by the thoughtless and rude actions of the offending driver. Then, again, would honking be an appropriate manner in which to show one’s love for the Son of God, the Savior of the world, the Redeemer of all mankind? Such was not the pattern provided by Jesus of Nazareth.
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